Security officer shoots, kills armed suspect

STOCKTON - A security guard shot and killed a man police say was attempting to rob a south Stockton grocery store Saturday evening.

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STOCKTON - A security guard shot and killed a man police say was attempting to rob a south Stockton grocery store Saturday evening.

Police received a call about 7:40 p.m. that Super Mercado La Amapola on the 1900 block of South El Dorado Street was being robbed at gun-point and that a man had been shot.

When police arrived, they learned that the man who had been shot was the suspected robber. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He was armed with a loaded handgun, Stockton police Lt. Joe Rocha said.

Rocha would not identify the security guard or the man who had been shot, saying that details were still unclear.

A few minutes before 8 p.m., the man could be seen handcuffed and lying face down roughly a dozen feet from the store's front door. Shortly after, he was covered with a yellow tarp. Police had taped off the supermarket's parking lot and were still interviewing witnesses about 8:30 p.m.

Rocha said it was too early to comment on the shooting, as it was still under investigation.

In May, a convenience store owner in the Stockton neighborhood of Boggs Tract shot and wounded one of two men who were robbing him at gunpoint. It was the fifth time his shop had been targeted so far this year.